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Monday, August 23, 2010

Practical Life on Vacation

I thought I would share a picture of one of our "practical life" activities from our vacation. I can't find it anywhere in the Gettman, but I'm sure learning to dive for things underwater should be on there somewhere...

the approach

the grab

the celebration!

We snuck in a few "phonics" sessions here in there, but our focus on vacation was swimming, swimming, swimming. Both boys love to swim underwater. Kal-El can swim the length of the pool using the crawl stroke.

Other practical life lessons learned included (but were not limited to):

swishing and spitting out toothpaste when brushing teeth (Believe it or not, this was a big deal.)

operating a fresh water shower at the beach

removing all the sand from your body using a fresh water shower at the beach

removing the sand from your behind that you missed the first time

digging a hole

digging a bigger hole

digging a really big hole

carrying buckets of water to fill a really big hole

sitting in a really big hole filled with water

paddling a kayak

dancing a on a towel to dry your feet so you don't slip and fall on the ceramic tile when you return from swimming.